Few people with SNAP benefits could use them for online purchases before the COVID-19 pandemic. Urupong/ iStock via Getty Images PlusThe share of low-income U.S.
Climate change leads to investment droughts, too. mgstudyo/E+/Getty ImagesClimate change poses the biggest risks to the most vulnerable people, and the same is true for businesses: Highly leveraged companies – those that have accumulated too much debt – are uniquely susceptible to climate shocks.
If your boss is biased, this is a logical response. Robert Daly/OJO Images via Getty ImagesWhen people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort.
About 46,000 autoworkers gradually went on strike starting in mid-September. Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe United Auto Workers union agreed on a tentative new contract with General Motors on Oct.
Corporate investors own nearly one-third of all single-family rental properties in Atlanta. Kruck20/iStock via Getty ImagesIn the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been buying large numbers of single-family homes to use as rentals.
An emergency bottled-water distribution site in Flint, Mich., in early 2016.
Supporters of Hezbollah have been rallying in Beirut in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
Search engines are expected to increasingly incorporate generative AI.
Victims' names engraved in a metal overhang, part of the Triangle Shirtwaist Memorial, are reflected in mirroring panels along the sidewalk.
Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march on Oct. 6, 2023, in Vallejo, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions reached a tentative agreement with its employer on a new four-year contract on Oct. 13, 2023.
